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TRAVELS IN AFRICA 
torn ; here we encamped for the night. We were 
all much fatigued, and one of our sick, being 
unable to walk, was most cruelly treated by 
some Foolahs who were hired to carry him. 
They obliged him to walk to the Parowell, 
where, had he not met Mr. Stokoe, who lent 
him his horse, he must have sunk from weak- 
ness and fatigue. When he reached the camp, 
he was so much exhausted, that his pulse was 
scarcely perceptible, and he was covered with a 
cold clammy perspiration. 
We left the Koba at eight o'clock on the 
morning of the 24th, and, passing some large 
unconnected lumps of rock of from five to 
twenty feet perpendicular height, crossed the 
Yangally, a small stream running to the east 
over stones and small gravel. Soon after, we 
entered a valley, which, although an apparent 
good soil, bore no marks of cultivation. It is 
bounded on the right by bold rocky cliffs, be- 
hind which, at no great distance, rise a chain of 
lofty mountains running se. and nw. At two 
p. M. we crossed a small brook that joins the 
Dunso, and shortly after heard the noise of the 
waterfall, which we were informed was caused 
by the junction of that river with the Thoominea. 
At three, we reached the former, running with 
great rapidity to the nnw., and having crossed 
it at a ford about thirty yards wide, halted for 
